Alright all you deck freaks, let’s hear what you got. Dr. Brad Krohn, a.k.a. Evil Dr. K. of Super Grover fame, was nice enough to send us a list of the decks he has skated over the years. Check them out after the turn and feel free to share your own list. Earth Patrol Out!
- Nash “Bowl Rider”, plastic
- Kryptonics Micke Alba K-beam, flat
- Alva Hosoi
- Powell-Peralta Vato Rat
- Zorlac Craig Johnson (Pushead voodoo doll)
- Santa Monica Airlines Natas Kaupas (Kevin Ancell/1st run)
- Skull skates Hosoi
- Alva Street Fire
- Alva Steet Fire
- Skull Skates Diehard
- Santa Cruz Jeff Kendall
- Alva Fred Smith
- Skull Skates Steve Olson
- Skull Skates Todd Swank
- G&S Danny Webster
- Skull Skates Justin Lovely
- Naked Boards SX
- Santa Cruz Gregor Rankin
- BBC Monty Nolder
- BBC Monty Nolder
- Naked Boards Hawk-shape
- Naked Boards Hawk-shape
- Naked Boards Street-shape
- Tracker GSD (airline disaster placard)
- Santa Cruz Team Slick
- Santa Cruz Team Dot
- Santa Cruz Street Skull
- Beer City Duane Peters
- Dogtown Red Dog popsicle
- Skull Skates Hardcore
- Cold War Naked Raygun
- Poolside Mid
- Red Cross Steve Olson
- Zorlac John Gibson
- Cold War Skate and Scab
- Cold War 8.5″
Brad would like to thank Pinchy for transcribing his dictation on the subject.
Nice shots of the Doc.
Thanks MC…seems like I should’ve had more decks on this list but along the way I ex-patrioted to the West Indies and then spent 4 years in a Mississippi lab toiling over the polymerase chain reaction and fish DNA…Let’s see your list!
That’s a lot of skateboards. At $40 a deck that equals $1440.00. I guess that’s not bad over the years.
Hey – where are the enlargements? Those colors pop!
Especially considering that hockey costs me $1200 per YEAR just in ice time/league fees and golf is $50-100 per DAY (or country club membership fees).
Let’s hear it for Dr. Brad’s MOM, who supported his skating all those years!!! Yay, Mom!
A nice addition would be an approximated year of ownership. I believe Dr, Brad could really sink his teeth in to recalling the years,perhaps a little story would insue. When are the Krhons going to visit again, possibly Carol we miss her to.
I think he had a little affair with Mr, Mike Frasier in COLO.
i started my list, you’ve inspired me to try remembering all the decks i’ve ridden, not easy though.
Hard to remember all 35 years worth.
1. Fifteen toes (metal wheels)
2. surfshop generic oak
3. generic Bahne knockoff fiberglass (chicago trucks)
4. woodshop kicktail
5. Infinity surfshop performer
6. Weber Woody
7. Z-Flex Jay Adams
8. X-Caliber generic warptail
9. X-Caliber XDEX (several)
10. X-Caliber Fats
11. Kryptonics Foam/PTex (2)
12. Z-Woody
13. X-Caliber graphite
14. Powell Peralta Ray Bones snub-nose (several)
15. Kanoa K-Pig
16. Kanoa Tri-Beam
17. Schmitt Stix Monty Nolder foam/kevlar
18. Santa Cruz Mini Duane Peters
19. Alva Mini Dolphin
20. Hosoi Mini Hammerhead
21. Madrid Mike Smith
22. Powell Peralta Tony Hawk
23. Rebel Skates Smay I’m a Crime
24. Pool Hustler
25. Rebel Skates Mr. Pointy
26. Rebel Skates Liberate
27. Custom fish by Poolside Skateboards (2)
28. Rebel Skates Rebelution (several)
29. Cold War Rotten Ronnie (3)
30. Rebel Skates Ransom (miniramps)
31. Rebel Skates Rebel One (at least 10)
(not counting G&S Fibreflex kicktail, suspenders, various longboards and a couple of eight-wheelers not used regularly)
Time for another stroll down memory lane:
1) Black Knight (from Sears, clay wheels)
2) Grentec GT (plastic, but with urethane!)
3) Hobie Freestyle (fiberglass, no kick, but you don’t need kick if you’re just going down hills imitating skiing)
4) G&S Stacy Peralta Warptail
5) G&S Warptail 2
6) G&S Teamrider
7) Town & Country Darren Ho (pig time)
8) Variflex El Gato (prob. my favorite of all)
9) Sims Hosoi
10) Sims Jeff Phillips (things are slowing down as “real life” intrudes)
11) Santa Cruz Jeff Kendall-Lounger (ever-slick)
12) Generic skate shop popsicle 7.75″ (hated it, hardly rode it)
13) Anti-Hero Big Eagle 8.3″ (better)
14) Alva Los Muertes (current)
15) Novmbr Team Shape (got it yesterday, just set it up)
I must have started just after MC, so obviously some breaks from skating here and there, as you guys have me beat by more than double. Doing my best to catch up now, though.
Mac
Dr Brad,
What if we found a giraffe on the side of the road drunk off of tequila…what do we do?
These are not necessarily in chronological order, hard to remember them all, I’m sure there is something missing in there. My list begins in 1985-86
1. nash blades
2. variflex twisted
3. powell caballero dragon &bats
4. sma natas panther
5. powell vallely elephant
6. powell vallely barnyard
7. alive? andre Walton
8. sma? Ron chatman experience
9. powell frankie hill bulldog
10. h-street Colby carter
11. h-street ron allen (delaminated, h-street replaced)
12. plan b danny way shotgun photo slick graphic
13. lance mountain doughboy
14. ray barbee tarot cards
15. uncut blank Colby carter shape
16. uncut blank shape?
17. blind Jason lee
18. small room -model?
Popsicle era
19. santa cruz team board scs
20. girl -model?
21. toy machine muska
22. toy machine senn?
23. element natas kaupus
24. element team
25. black label hassan mask
26. black label adams leopard
27. black label Hensley
28. black label hassan alive series 1
29. PIT skatepark shop board x2
30. blank popsicles x10-20
31. black label team pink graphic
32. cold war naked raygun
33. cold war bush bomber bomb shape
34. cold war rotten Ronnie bomb shape
35. cold war gas mask repo custom shape
36. beer city branded blank 8.75
37. cold war groovy ghoulies
38. cold war epoxies
39. cold war sleestak
40. cold war détente
41. cold war détente 2 square tail
42. cold war fallout
43. cold war fallout again
44. powel cab dragon reissue
45. powell cab dragon &bats reissue
46. krooked hosoi hammerhead guest model
47. uncut blank hammerhead shape
On Deck: Cold War Westicle
Egbert: Regarding acute alcohol toxicosis in large hoof-stock, was it overweight?
Funny thing is last night (Sunday after Sleestok) i got sucked into “Lost World” (Jurassic Park 2) and i saw a Terradactyl at the end… (Dr.B’s favorite animal)
Why didn’t these birds just fly to the mainland? Can you explain?
Pterodactyl – sorry
holy mispelling
Funny- I started watching that movie last night too but stopped after a few minutes and proclaiming to my wife how awful it was…
Stay Gay,
Dr. Krohn
I remember the teenage Brad skateboarding in front of the Ten Shitty Guys house in Urbana back in the 80’s. He would skate all day and then put on his best Replacements garb (he worshipped that band I think) and raise hell all night at Eddie’s, Trito’s, etc. I think he also had the world’s best fake I.D. at this time – His older sister was dating one of the Bowery Boys and he always seemed to sneek in to see bands when he was way too young to be there…Good to see him still skating and a doctor now because I had actually heard once that he was dead!?
Dead? Just dead to his friends! Son? I have no sun! Har har. Speaking of Ten Shitty Guys… (Ihtink it’s down right now. I can’t check because it’s blocked at work, not for content, just because of the name.
The doc is a legend a legend in his own time. Kids follow him around skate parks like he is Mother Goose. It has been said that not only can he comminicate with mammals, but reptiles too. His older sister is a goddess and people worship her as such.
i fought him in Steamboat, he was wearing a shark skin suit with a red paper heart pinned on the sleeve and he thought he was hot shit, i thought he was a pussy but he didn’t back down…who cares now
A bright green no-brand plastic banana board
A messed up, small wooden board that some kid brought from Poland (ok, I didnt really use it)
Variflex.. something
Skull Skates Todd Swank
Santa Cruz John Grigley III
Schmitt Stix Chain Saw
Powell Peralta Vallely
Powell Peralta Tony Hawk
Alva Bill Danforth
World Industries Vallely (“Vert”? Had a pointy nose and elephant graphics..)
World Industries Vallely Farm
..cant remember the rest of them :
Sorry I’m so late in posting but this is in response to Brad’s sister, Carole’s post in #19 above — Carole, you are too funny! People calling you a goddess? That’s a good one. I almost wet myself from laughing so hard when I read that. I guess it’s true though, that is, if “goddess” is really a euphemism for coke whore! You’re hilarious, Carole!